Ghorkodada vs. Sphinx
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Topic: Ghorkodada vs. Sphinx
Posted By: Cyrus Shahmiri
Subject: Ghorkodada vs. Sphinx
Date Posted: 04-Mar-2005 at 08:12
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The Ghorkodada statue, 22 meters high and six meters wide, is in an area 40 km from the provincial capital city of Ardebil at the top of a 100-meter high hill. Residents of Anbaran village call the statue 'baba davood' and entertain the belief that a shrine, built in the area surrounding the statue, has been destroyed with the lapse of time. The stone statue, situated on the bank of a river overlooking anbaran village, is very similar to the statue of sphinx in Egypt. Some peoples have stood on the heads of these statues:
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Posted By: cattus
Date Posted: 04-Mar-2005 at 11:16
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Im trying to picture them opposite eachother with boxing gloves but cant make out Ghorkodada. Looks like Jabba the Hut. What is it? ------------- |